The Security Mentor

McAfee, Norton, and maybe others can catch at least some forms of the problem I mentioned yesterday. In other words, up-to-date antivirus software may protect you against being taken over by a bad guy's web site.

I'm hemming and hawing because I've looked at the published examples of how bad guys can program a web page to take over your computer. It's complicated and there are lots of ways to disguise what it's doing. It's very possible that someone will find a way to slip it past antivirus software.